[ofa-general] Standard RDS port number

Yevgeny Kliteynik kliteyn at dev.mellanox.co.il
Sun Jan 27 02:17:41 PST 2008


Hello Olaf,

I'm working on QoS management in OFED.

I noticed the following in the rds.h:

	/*
	 * XXX randomly chosen, but at least seems to be unused:
	 * #               18464-18768 Unassigned
	 * We should do better.  We want a reserved port to discourage unpriv'ed
	 * userspace from listening.
	 *
	 * port 18633 was the version that had ack frames on the wire.
	 */
	#define RDS_PORT        18634

I'm using this port number to recognize RDS
connection in QoS manager (OpenSM).

How 'solid' is this RDS_PORT definition?
Will it be standardized somehow?
Do you have some plans to change it?

Thanks

-- Yevgeny




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